Duck to Waterby
crabappl3Comment by zeuszen: I find it difficult to enjoy the excessive noise chosen (?) for this particular shot. While it would add some interest to a purely textural study or one concerned with instilling a (film-like) fleeting temporality (character portrait, journalism, possibly a candid, even a landscape, if dating it via effects would serve a purpose).
The interest here, however, lies likely stronger in the nature of flight, the details of markings, colour, pose etc, precisely those aspects which have been obscured. The inclusion of the second duck (in the water does stabilize the balance of tones within the image, but it does nothing for an easily achievable (and enjoyable) simplicity of composition, which we would have, if it were cloned out.
What remains, to me, is an image with delightful effects, textures and tones, if appiled to a more abstract (non-figurative, non-representational) piece than this one.
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